How abortion
is destroying America:
50.5 million abortions is equivalent to the population of our 71 largest cities, from New York, NY, all the way down to cities the size of St. Petersburg, FL. (See map.)
That's the toll abortion has already reached at the current rate of 1,350,000 abortions a year. It’s equal to or greater than the human loss we would have experienced from an all-out nuclear war. Yet we are told to sit passively by and endure it by the pro-abortion ideologues of the left who dominate our culture, our media, our politics and our courts.
It adds up to a 30% loss in the younger generation under age 36 -- nearly 1 out of 3 of this generation has been aborted. The toll includes some 15 million African-American babies and nearly 36 million others. That's about 10,000 times as many African-Americans as were lynched since 1900. It amounts to a holocaust against blacks and against the young. It is the greatest loss ever inflicted on any generation in history. How can can anyone with a conscience stand silent in the face of it?
Abortion has major social and economic costs as well. The estimated loss in downstream tax revenue exceeds $14 trillion -- more than twice our current national debt. It is, in fact, the greatest tax increase of all time. That's why, even if abortion ends, it will still take more than a generation to recover.
The cost in lost GDP from abortions that have already occurred is estimated at $30 trillion. Nothing else has ever had a more depressing effect on the U.S. and the world economy. Meanwhile, it is being compounded by a dramatic decline in births in France, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, Japan and even China. Only the Muslim world continues to grow at a rapid clip, and as a result much of Europe itself will become predominantly Muslim within 20 years. If we want a better world for ourselves and our children, we must raise a great hue and cry right now.
No kids, no future. It's as simple as that.
Abortion is also driving the greatest health care and education crisis in history, a crisis that is just ahead. As baby boom nurses and teachers retire, we face a looming shortage of 1 million nurses and 2 million teachers. We also face critical shortages in such key professions as science, medicine, and higher education. Abortion and more efficient birth control together have wiped out about half of our future human resources. With a growing number of elderly baby boomers in need of critical care, the only way to ease this crisis is to end abortion. Unless we do, the crisis will grow dramatically worse over the next 20 years.
Pro-abortion politicians promise to remedy these shortages with their usual shell games. They promise aggressive new training programs for nurses and teachers, but never bother to explain where they are going to get the people to fill them.
Such programs can never restore the vast human resources that have been poured down the population control rathole over the last 35 to 40 years. Besides, such programs have a long history of being nothing but a sham.
When former President Carter was Governor of Georgia, he signed a deal promising to train 2,000 workers for a new smoke detector factory as long as the manufacturer promised to hire just half of them. In less than three years, the company was wiped out by cheap imports and never hired more than 800 people even at its peak. Not much later, it sold the factory.
"Training programs" like that are a dime a dozen, but they rarely work. Besides, you just can't bring back the millions of lives that have already been sacrificed to the idol of abortion. The next time we will see them is at the Last Judgment when they will show up to accuse those who stood by silently while they were slaughtered. Some people will be awfully surprised.
Another consequence of abortion is a disastrous shift in the supply-demand equation that underlies our economy. Kids contribute to demand even before they are born, but they don’t compete in the work force for 20 years. That’s why 50.5 million abortions represent a huge loss in consumer demand. If those babies had been born, our fast-paced economy would still be going strong. Those we aborted were the future consumers, producers, parents and taxpayers we needed keep to keep our economy growing.
The 4-2-1-0 family model is a dead end. Four grandparents who have two children, who then marry and have one child represent a huge loss in future growth. That's why China is already starting to bend on its 1 child per family policy. Pursued, it means the end of China within 100 years. Russia already faces this same debacle, They no longer have enough younger women to raise a new generation -- and their population is forecast to decline by 33% by 2050.
If we don't wake up soon, we could go in the same direction. If we fail to end abortion, our role as a world economic leader will decline dramatically over the next 30 years.
As early as 1994, I began predicting the collapse of the stock market that finally came in 2000. It was a collapse that was inevitable based on the demographics.
Unless these demographic trends reverse soon, the U.S. faces a long term economic decline that could prove far worse than the Great Depression.
However, politics alone is not the answer. Presidents come and go and have little real effect on the economy. On the other hand, demographics is destiny, and there is no way of changing fundamental trends except for people to begin making moral choices that put long term goals ahead of short term pleasures and profits. We ignore this fundamental truth at our own peril.
The abortion boom is also behind the coming crisis in Social Security and Medicare. In 1940, we had 145 people in the workforce for every person on Social Security. That's when it looked like a great idea! By 1952, the ratio had dropped to 16 to 1. It is now 3.1 to 1. In less than 20 years, it will be only 2 to 1. That's when the government Ponzi scheme will get ugly. To save these programs from bankruptcy, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that tax rates will have to rise as high as 82%.
As a survivor of the abortion boom, guess who will pay the bill? You and your children and grandchildren, that's who!
The downstream loss in future tax revenues from the more than 50.5 million abortions we have already had amounts to an estimated $19 trillion, or more than twice our current national debt.
We don't have a debt crisis. We have a death crisis.
What can you do to help?
The answer is not hiding from the controversy about abortion or from the even more polarizing political debate. But remember, few minds are changed by political campaigns. This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. It is a profoundly moral and human issue.
The solution is for we, the people, to speak up. We need more honest, open discussion in our homes, our churches, and our communities -- not continued censorship and suppression of the discussion by the politically correct media and the courts. Churches that remain silent will only have themselves to blame when the full crisis hits their congregations and their collection plates.
We urgently need to build a pro-life majority by changing hearts and opening minds.
That can only achieved by talking more honestly and compassionately about the problem in our families, our communities and in our churches, and by educating young people about what is really at stake for their futures. We need to tell them that there is no rosy glow at the end of the abortion road.
Polite silence is not the answer.
Talk to your pastors and youth ministers. Write letters to the editor. Make calls to call-in talk shows. Send emails and write blogs. Reach out compassionately to those whose lives have been adversely affected by abortion. Join Meetup for Life . . . And by all means, spread the word about our website: http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org
Above all, give generously to support our new Campaign for Life. This car can't run on fumes any more than yours can. When our voice goes silent, who will be there to speak out as we have? We can't continue this struggle without your help.
Remember, if all of those who believe in life could change just one mind and heart today, we would have a pro-life majority tomorrow. Nothing else will end abortion.
Spread the word. Join your voice with ours. Share your thoughts with us by emailing us at:
info@movementforabetteramerica.org
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